
Should America Ban TikTok?
Offline with Jon Favreau
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TikTok's Concerns About Censorship Issues
In the past TikTok had very strong connections between engineering teams and other teams in Beijing at the parent company, ByteDance. So quite reasonable to have a concern that either through just leaning on an engineer or some formal mechanism the Chinese government might try to get user data out of TikTok. But these things are not actually that clear. And it's not unreasonable to be concerned about them in the long term, but one has to look at the details.
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